Subject: Re: bug#18760: 24.4; Encoding problem in about-emacs

From: Lars Ljung <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:24:54 +0200

Den 2014-10-18 13:13, Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 11:54:36 +0200
>> From: Lars Ljung <[email-masked]>
>>
>> The title of the tutorial is translated in the start-up screen. In the
>> case of Windows XP with a Swedish locale the title is in UTF-8 but the
>> buffer is in iso-8859-1. So "ä" in "användarhandledning" is shown as "Ã¤".
> 
> Is that a GUI session or a -nw text-mode session?
> 

Only in the GUI. I looked at it a bit and my guess is that the encoding
is not properly detected when extracting the title using
(with-temp-buffer (insert-file-contents ... when defining
fancy-startup-text.

/Lars